The Fargos
Stark: Of all people to bring out of cryostasis, I resurrect another Fargo.
Fargo's grandfather is discovered in a cryo-stasis chamber, but no one can determine how he got in there. Elsewhere, Zoe pursues another mystery involving her dad and a dozen roses.
Tropes
- Actor Allusion: Joe Morton, who plays Henry, was in Forever Young, which is also about someone who ages rapidly after being cryogenically frozen.
- Call-Back:
- When Fargo insists that his grandfather can't have accidentally frozen himself, Carter reminds him of the forcefield incident.
- Carter keeps making pointed digs at Allison and Stark about the events of Noche de Suenos.
- Character Focus: The episode focuses on Fargo and his family.
- Dark and Troubled Past: Carter is so strict about Zoe driving because he had an accident in which his high school girlfriend died.
- Family Theme Naming: Pierre, Douglas and Fargo are all towns in the Dakotas.
- Human Popsicle: Pierre was in cryo-stasis for decades.
- Jerk with a Heart of Gold: Sandrov. He might be an opportunist who took credit for Pierre's work, but when Pierre is beginning to rapidly age, he does everything he can in order to help him.
- Murder the Hypotenuse: Charlie the jeweller shoved Pierre into the cryo chamber to try to have a chance with Belle.
- Rapid Aging: Hours after being unfrozen, Pierre ages decades in a few minutes.
- Shared Family Quirks: The Fargo family as a whole seem to have a reputation for reckless button-pressing (in fact, this is how Fargo's father died). This is the leading theory for how Pierre Fargo got frozen until analysis shows a sedative in his system.Carter: Hey, um, is anyone curious as to how he got in there?
Stark: He's a Fargo, are you really surprised?
Fargo: I'm standing right here! - Someone to Remember Him By: Fargo's father was an example of this trope, as he was born eight months after Pierre vanished.
- Something Only They Would Say: At first, Stark refuses to believe one of the founding fathers of Eureka's science can be a fraud. But when confronted, Sandrov has trouble remembering how "his" experiments worked, while Pierre can rattle them off perfectly from memory. That forces Sandrov to confess to the truth.
- Stealing the Credit: Sandrov stole Pierre's research after he disappeared.
